유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
Paper 54
Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion
Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion
54:0.1 (613.1)
EVOLUTIONARY man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity.
54:0.2 (613.2)
The Gods neither create evil nor permit sin and rebellion. Potential evil is time-existent in a universe embracing differential levels of perfection meanings and values. Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good and evil. The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity.
54:1.5 (613.7)
Unbridled self-will and unregulated self-expression equal unmitigated selfishness, the acme of ungodliness. Liberty without the associated and ever-increasing conquest of self is a figment of egoistic mortal imagination. Self-motivated liberty is a conceptual illusion, a cruel deception. License masquerading in the garments of liberty is the forerunner of abject bondage.
54:1.6 (614.1)
True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.
54:1.8 (614.3)
There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness. Only true and genuine liberty is compatible with the reign of love and the ministry of mercy.
54:1.9 (614.4)
How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects.
54:1.10 (614.5)
Evolutionary man may have to contend for his material liberties with tyrants and oppressors on a world of sin and iniquity or during the early times of a primitive evolving sphere, but not so on the morontia worlds or on the spirit spheres. War is the heritage of early evolutionary man, but on worlds of normal advancing civilization physical combat as a technique of adjusting racial misunderstandings has long since fallen into disrepute.
54:2.1 (614.6)
With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eternal Havona, and ever since has there obtained the eternal pattern of co-ordinate participation in creation—sharing. This pattern of sharing is the master design for every one of the Sons and Daughters of God who go out into space to engage in the attempt to duplicate in time the central universe of eternal perfection.
54:2.2 (614.7)
Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father’s will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential perfection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.
루시퍼의 어리석음은, 할 수 없는 일을 하려는 시도, 체험하는 우주에서 시간을 옆길로-단축시키려는 시도였다. 루시퍼의 범죄는, 사타니아의 모든 인격체가 지닌 창조성을 뺏으려고 꾀한 것인데, 개별적으로 또한 집단적으로 빛과 생명의 상태에 도달하려고, 피조물이 긴 진화 투쟁에 몸소 참여하는--곧 자유의지로 참여하는-- 권리를 몰래 박탈한 것이었다. 그렇게 하면서, 한때 너희 체계의 주권자였던 이 존재는, 모든 인격있는 피조물에게 자유의지를 증여하신 데서 드러난 목적 곧 하나님 뜻의 영원한 목적에 상반되는 자기 뜻을 목적으로 정했다. 따라서 루시퍼 반역은, 사타니아 체계에서 상승자와 봉사자들의 자유의지 선택에 대한 최대한의 침해행위--즉 언젠가 완성된 사타니아 체계로서 존재할, 서서히 세워지는 체험적 지혜의 기념비에 개인적이고 독특한 무언가로 기여하는 짜릿한 체험을 이런 모든 존재로부터 영원히 빼앗으려는 위협--이 됐다. 그리하여 자유라는 옷으로 변장한 루시퍼 성명서는, 개인적 자유의 탈취를 완성하려고, 그리고 온 네바돈 역사에서 오직 두 번 진행됐던 규모로 이를 행하려고, 명료한 이성{理性}에 비춰볼 때 어처구니없는 협박을 하면서 나아갔다.
54:2.3 (614.8)
Lucifer’s folly was the attempt to do the nondoable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer’s crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature’s personal participation—freewill participation—in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively. In so doing this onetime Sovereign of your system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly athwart the eternal purpose of God’s will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures. The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania—a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania. Thus does the Lucifer manifesto, masquerading in the habiliments of liberty, stand forth in the clear light of reason as a monumental threat to consummate the theft of personal liberty and to do it on a scale that has been approached only twice in all the history of Nebadon.
여러 진화 세계에서, 도덕적 의지를 지닌 피조물은, 온전히-지혜로운 창조주들이 왜 악과 죄를 허용하는지에 대한 생각지 않은 질문으로 늘 괴로워한다. 피조물이 정말로 자유로우려면 이 두 가지가 다 필연적임을 그들은 납득하지 못한다. 진화하는 사람 또는 고상한 천사의 자유의지는, 단순한 철학 개념 곧 상징적 이상{理想}이 아니다. 사람이 선이나 악을 선택할 수 있는 역량은 하나의 우주 실체다. 스스로 선택할 수 있는 이 자유는 최상급 통치자들이 부여한 것이며, 그분들은, 넓은 우주에서 어떤 존재나 존재들 집단이든지 신이 부여한 이 자유를 단 하나의 인격체로부터도 빼앗지 못하게 할 것이다--이름을 잘못 붙인 이 개인 자유를 누리려는, 그런 잘못 인도되고 무지한 존재들을 만족시키지도 않을 것이다.
54:3.1 (615.3)
The moral will creatures of the evolutionary worlds are always bothered with the unthinking question as to why the all-wise Creators permit evil and sin. They fail to comprehend that both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free. The free will of evolving man or exquisite angel is not a mere philosophic concept, a symbolic ideal. Man’s ability to choose good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed liberty—not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty.
54:3.2 (615.4)
Although conscious and wholehearted identification with evil (sin) is the equivalent of nonexistence (annihilation), there must always intervene between the time of such personal identification with sin and the execution of the penalty—the automatic result of such a willful embrace of evil—a period of time of sufficient length to allow for such an adjudication of such an individual’s universe status as will prove entirely satisfactory to all related universe personalities, and which will be so fair and just as to win the approval of the sinner himself.
54:3.3 (615.5)
But if this universe rebel against the reality of truth and goodness refuses to approve the verdict, and if the guilty one knows in his heart the justice of his condemnation but refuses to make such confession, then must the execution of sentence be delayed in accordance with the discretion of the Ancients of Days. And the Ancients of Days refuse to annihilate any being until all moral values and all spiritual realities are extinct, both in the evildoer and in all related supporters and possible sympathizers.
54:4.2 (616.1)
Parents, those who have borne and reared children, are better able to understand why Michael, a Creator-father, might be slow to condemn and destroy his own Sons. Jesus’ story of the prodigal son well illustrates how a loving father can long wait for the repentance of an erring child.
54:4.4 (616.3)
Most of the liberties which Lucifer sought he already had; others he was to receive in the future. All these precious endowments were lost by giving way to impatience and yielding to a desire to possess what one craves now and to possess it in defiance of all obligation to respect the rights and liberties of all other beings composing the universe of universes. Ethical obligations are innate, divine, and universal.
최상급 통치자들이 루시퍼 반역의 지도자들을 즉각 괴멸시키거나 억류시키지 않은 많은 이유를 우리는 알고 있다. 우리에게 알려지지 않은 또 다른 이유, 그리고 아마 더 나은 이유가 틀림없이 있을 것이다. 응보의 집행을 이렇게 지연시킨 자비의 특색은, 네바돈의 미가엘이 친히 베풀었다는 점이다. 과오를 범하는 아들들을 이 창조주-아버지가 사랑하지 않았더라면, 연방우주의 최상급 재판관이 활동했을 것이다. 루시퍼 반역 같은 그런 사건이, 미가엘이 유란시아에서 육신화된 동안에 네바돈에서 발생했다면, 그런 악을 선동하는 자들은 즉시 철저히 소멸됐을지도 모른다.
54:4.5 (616.4)
There are many reasons known to us why the Supreme Rulers did not immediately destroy or intern the leaders of the Lucifer rebellion. There are no doubt still other and possibly better reasons unknown to us. The mercy features of this delay in the execution of justice were extended personally by Michael of Nebadon. Except for the affection of this Creator-father for his erring Sons, the supreme justice of the superuniverse would have acted. If such an episode as the Lucifer rebellion had occurred in Nebadon while Michael was incarnated on Urantia, the instigators of such evil might have been instantly and absolutely annihilated.
최고의 응보는, 신의 자비로 억제되지 않을 때 즉시 작용할 수 있다. 그러나 시공간의 자녀들에게 자비를 베푸는 데는 언제나 이런 시간 지연, 즉 씨 뿌리는 시기와 거두는 시기 사이에 이 구원 간격이 마련된다. 뿌려진 씨가 선하면, 이 간격은 성품을 시험하고 발전시켜주며;뿌려진 씨가 악하면, 이 자비로운 연기는 회개하고 교정할 수 있는 시간을 제공한다. 행악자들에 대한 판결과 집행에서 생기는 이 시간 지연은, 일곱 연방우주의 자비 혜택에 본래부터 들어있다. 이렇게 처벌을 자비가 억제하는 것은, 하나님이 사랑이시라는 것과, 그러한 사랑의 하나님이 우주들을 지배하고 모든 피조물의 운명과 심판을 자비롭게 통제하신다는 것을 입증한다.
54:4.6 (616.5)
Supreme justice can act instantly when not restrained by divine mercy. But the ministry of mercy to the children of time and space always provides for this time lag, this saving interval between seedtime and harvest. If the seed sowing is good, this interval provides for the testing and upbuilding of character; if the seed sowing is evil, this merciful delay provides time for repentance and rectification. This time delay in the adjudication and execution of evildoers is inherent in the mercy ministry of the seven superuniverses. This restraint of justice by mercy proves that God is love, and that such a God of love dominates the universes and in mercy controls the fate and judgment of all his creatures.
54:4.7 (616.6)
The mercy delays of time are by the mandate of the free will of the Creators. There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose.
54:4.8 (616.7)
But these mercy delays are not interminable. Notwithstanding the long delay (as time is reckoned on Urantia) in adjudicating the Lucifer rebellion, we may record that, during the time of effecting this revelation, the first hearing in the pending case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer was held on Uversa, and soon thereafter there issued the mandate of the Ancients of Days directing that Satan be henceforth confined to the prison world with Lucifer. This ends the ability of Satan to pay further visits to any of the fallen worlds of Satania. Justice in a mercy-dominated universe may be slow, but it is certain.
54:5.6 (617.6)
5. Regardless of Michael’s attitude toward Lucifer, notwithstanding his being Lucifer’s Creator-father, it was not in the province of the Creator Son to exercise summary jurisdiction over the apostate System Sovereign because he had not then completed his bestowal career, thereby attaining unqualified sovereignty of Nebadon.
54:5.9 (617.9)
8. The Faithful of Days on Edentia advised the Constellation Fathers to allow the rebels free course to the end that all sympathy for these evildoers should be the sooner uprooted in the hearts of every present and future citizen of Norlatiadek—every mortal, morontia, or spirit creature.
9. 예루셈에서는 오르본톤의 최고 행정관의 개인 대리인은, 루시퍼 자유 선언에 포함된 여러 문제에서, 모든 살아있는 피조물이 신중한 선택을 하도록 충분한 기회를 제공하라고 가브리엘에게 권고했다. 반역의 문제가 제기되자, 가브리엘의 낙원 응급 충고자는, 그런 충분하고 자유로운 기회가 모든 노라티아덱 피조물에게 제공되지 않는다면, 전체 성좌에 대한 자체-방어를 위해 낙원은 반신반의하거나 의심에-사로잡힐 가능성이 있는 그런 모든 피조물에 대한 격리가 연장될 것이라고 설명했다. 노라티아덱 존재들에게 낙원으로 상승하는 문들을 계속 열어놓기 위해서는, 반역이 충분히 전개되도록 마련할 필요가 있었고, 이에 관련된 모든 존재의 편에서 태도를 전반적으로 결정하도록 보장할 필요가 있었다.
54:5.10 (617.10)
9. On Jerusem the personal representative of the Supreme Executive of Orvonton counseled Gabriel to foster full opportunity for every living creature to mature a deliberate choice in those matters involved in the Lucifer Declaration of Liberty. The issues of rebellion having been raised, the Paradise emergency adviser of Gabriel portrayed that, if such full and free opportunity were not given all Norlatiadek creatures, then would the Paradise quarantine against all such possible halfhearted or doubt-stricken creatures be extended in self-protection against the entire constellation. To keep open the Paradise doors of ascension to the beings of Norlatiadek, it was necessary to provide for the full development of rebellion and to insure the complete determination of attitude on the part of all beings in any way concerned therewith.
54:5.11 (617.11)
10. The Divine Minister of Salvington issued as her third independent proclamation a mandate directing that nothing be done to half cure, cowardly suppress, or otherwise hide the hideous visage of rebels and rebellion. The angelic hosts were directed to work for full disclosure and unlimited opportunity for sin-expression as the quickest technique of achieving the perfect and final cure of the plague of evil and sin.
54:5.12 (618.1)
11. An emergency council of ex-mortals consisting of Mighty Messengers, glorified mortals who had had personal experience with like situations, together with their colleagues, was organized on Jerusem. They advised Gabriel that at least three times the number of beings would be led astray if arbitrary or summary methods of suppression were attempted. The entire Uversa corps of counselors concurred in advising Gabriel to permit the rebellion to take its full and natural course, even if it should require a million years to wind up the consequences.
12. 심지어 시간세계의 한 우주에서도, 시간은 상대적이다:평범한 기간의 인생을 산 어떤 유란시아 필사자가, 전-세계적 대혼란을 촉진시키는 어떤 죄를 범했다면, 그리고 그가 그 죄를 저지르고 나서 이틀 또는 사흘 만에 체포되고 심문받고 집행됐다면, 이것이 너희에게 긴 시간으로 보이겠는가? 그렇지만 지금 시작된 루시퍼의 판결이 유란시아 햇수로 10만 년 동안 완료되지 못하더라도, 루시퍼의 일생 기간에 비교한다면, 더 짧을지도 모른다. 그 소송이 계류 중에 있는 우버사의 관점에서 보면, 루시퍼의 범죄는 범행을 저지른 지 2.5초 내에 재판에 회부됐다고 함으로써, 그 상대적 시간 경과를 표시할 수 있다. 낙원 관점에서 보면, 그 판결은 그 범죄 행위와 동시에 이뤄진다.
54:5.13 (618.2)
12. Time, even in a universe of time, is relative: If a Urantia mortal of average length of life should commit a crime which precipitated world-wide pandemonium, and if he were apprehended, tried, and executed within two or three days of the commission of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a comparison with the length of Lucifer’s life even if his adjudication, now begun, should not be completed for a hundred thousand Urantia years. The relative lapse of time from the viewpoint of Uversa, where the litigation is pending, could be indicated by saying that the crime of Lucifer was being brought to trial within two and a half seconds of its commission. From the Paradise viewpoint the adjudication is simultaneous with the enactment.
54:5.14 (618.3)
There are an equal number of reasons for not arbitrarily stopping the Lucifer rebellion which would be partially comprehensible to you, but which I am not permitted to narrate. I may inform you that on Uversa we teach forty-eight reasons for permitting evil to run the full course of its own moral bankruptcy and spiritual extinction. I doubt not that there are just as many additional reasons not known to me.
54:6.1 (618.4)
Whatever the difficulties evolutionary mortals may encounter in their efforts to understand the Lucifer rebellion, it should be clear to all reflective thinkers that the technique of dealing with the rebels is a vindication of divine love. The loving mercy extended to the rebels does seem to have involved many innocent beings in trials and tribulations, but all these distraught personalities may securely depend upon the all-wise Judges to adjudicate their destinies in mercy as well as justice.
54:6.2 (618.5)
In all their dealings with intelligent beings, both the Creator Son and his Paradise Father are love dominated. It is impossible to comprehend many phases of the attitude of the universe rulers toward rebels and rebellion—sin and sinners—unless it be remembered that God as a Father takes precedence over all other phases of Deity manifestation in all the dealings of divinity with humanity. It should also be recalled that the Paradise Creator Sons are all mercy motivated.
어떤 대가족에서 자애로운 아버지가, 심각한 잘못을 저지른 자녀 가운데 하나에게 자비를 베풀기로 한다면, 품행이 옳지 못한 이 자녀에게 자비를 적용하는 일은, 행실이 올바른 다른 모든 자녀에게 일시적으로 어려움을 주게 될 것이 자명하다. 그런 결말은 필연적이며;사랑스런 부모를 갖게 되고 가족 집단의 어떤 식구가 되는 실제 상황에서, 그런 위험성은 분리될 수 없다. 한 가족에서 각 식구는 나머지 모든 식구의 의로운 행실로 말미암아 유익을 얻으며;마찬가지로 각 식구는, 나머지 모든 식구의 잘못된 행실이 직접 일으키는 한때의-결말로 인하여 고통을 받는다. 가족, 집단, 나라, 인종, 세계, 체계, 성좌, 및 우주는 개별성을 갖는 연합 관계이며;따라서 크든지 작든지 그런 어느 집단이라도, 그 구성원은 누구든지, 관계되는 그 집단의 모든 다른 구성원의 옳은 행위의 결과로 유익을 거둬들이거나 그른 행위의 결과로 괴로워한다.
54:6.3 (618.6)
If an affectionate father of a large family chooses to show mercy to one of his children guilty of grievous wrongdoing, it may well be that the extension of mercy to this misbehaving child will work a temporary hardship upon all the other and well-behaved children. Such eventualities are inevitable; such a risk is inseparable from the reality situation of having a loving parent and of being a member of a family group. Each member of a family profits by the righteous conduct of every other member; likewise must each member suffer the immediate time-consequences of the misconduct of every other member. Families, groups, nations, races, worlds, systems, constellations, and universes are relationships of association which possess individuality; and therefore does every member of any such group, large or small, reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of the rightdoing and the wrongdoing of all other members of the group concerned.
그러나 한 가지 분명히 해야 하는데:너희 가족 가운데 어떤 식구나 어떤 동료 시민 또는 동료 필사자의 죄, 심지어 그 체계 또는 다른 데서 있었던 반역의 악한 결과로 너희가 고통을 겪게 됐다면, --동역자나 동료 또는 상관들의 비행 때문에 너희가 무엇을 참아야하든지 상관없이-- 너희는 그런 시련이 일시적 고통일 뿐이라는 것을 영원히 확신하면서 안심해도 좋다. 집단 내에서 나쁜 행실이 형제간에 미치는 이런 결과들 가운데 아무 것도, 결코 너희의 영원한 가능성을 계속 위태롭게 하거나, 또는 낙원으로 상승하여 하나님께 도달하는 너희의 신성한 권리를 조금도 빼앗을 수 없다.
54:6.4 (619.1)
But one thing should be made clear: If you are made to suffer the evil consequences of the sin of some member of your family, some fellow citizen or fellow mortal, even rebellion in the system or elsewhere—no matter what you may have to endure because of the wrongdoing of your associates, fellows, or superiors—you may rest secure in the eternal assurance that such tribulations are transient afflictions. None of these fraternal consequences of misbehavior in the group can ever jeopardize your eternal prospects or in the least degree deprive you of your divine right of Paradise ascension and God attainment.
54:6.5 (619.2)
And there is compensation for these trials, delays, and disappointments which invariably accompany the sin of rebellion. Of the many valuable repercussions of the Lucifer rebellion which might be named, I will only call attention to the enhanced careers of those mortal ascenders, the Jerusem citizens, who, by withstanding the sophistries of sin, placed themselves in line for becoming future Mighty Messengers, fellows of my own order. Every being who stood the test of that evil episode thereby immediately advanced his administrative status and enhanced his spiritual worth.
루시퍼 격변이 처음에는, 체계에 대해서 그리고 우주에 대해서 수그러들 줄 모르는 재난처럼 보였다. 차츰 이익이 발생되기 시작했다. 체계 시간으로 2만 5천 년(유란시아 시간으로 2만 년)이 지나면서, 멜기세덱들은 루시퍼의 어리석은 행동에서 나오는 선한 결과가, 초래된 악과 맞먹을 정도가 됐다고 가르치기 시작했다. 악의 총합은 그때까지 거의 정지된 상태에 있었는데, 격리된 어떤 세계들에서만 증가됐던 반면, 유익한 영향은 우주와 연방우주를 통해 바깥쪽으로, 그리고 심지어 하보나에 이르기까지 계속 증가되고 확장됐다. 멜기세덱들은 이제, 사타니아 반역에서 발생된 선한 것들이 전체 악의 합계보다 1,000배 이상에 달한다고 가르친다.
54:6.6 (619.3)
At first the Lucifer upheaval appeared to be an unmitigated calamity to the system and to the universe. Gradually benefits began to accrue. With the passing of twenty-five thousand years of system time (twenty thousand years of Urantia time), the Melchizedeks began to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer’s folly had come to equal the evil incurred. The sum of evil had by that time become almost stationary, continuing to increase only on certain isolated worlds, while the beneficial repercussions continued to multiply and extend out through the universe and superuniverse, even to Havona. The Melchizedeks now teach that the good resulting from the Satania rebellion is more than a thousand times the sum of all the evil.
그러나 잘못된 행위의 이런 색다르고 유익한 추수 결과는 오직, 에덴시아에서 성좌 아버지들로부터, 낙원에 계신 우주 아버지에 이르기까지, 루시퍼보다 위에 있는 모든 분의 현명하고 신성하고 자비로운 태도 때문에 거둘 수 있었다. 시간의 흐름은, 루시퍼의 어리석은 행동에서 파생될 수 있는 필연적 선을 증진시켜왔으며;유죄를 선고받아야 할 악이 비교적 짧은 시일 내에 제법 충분히 발전됐으므로, 온전히-지혜롭고 선견지명 있는 우주 통치자들이 더욱 유익한 결과를 초래할 시간을 확실히 연장시킬 것이 분명하다. 사타니아 반역자들의 체포와 재판을 지연시키는 추가적인 많은 이유는 차치하고 이 한 가지 소득만 해도, 왜 이 죄인들이 더 빨리 억류되지 않았는지, 그리고 왜 그들이 판결 받고 궤멸되지 않았는지 설명하기에 충분할 것이다.
54:6.7 (619.4)
But such an extraordinary and beneficent harvest of wrongdoing could only be brought about by the wise, divine, and merciful attitude of all of Lucifer’s superiors, extending from the Constellation Fathers on Edentia to the Universal Father on Paradise. The passing of time has enhanced the consequential good to be derived from the Lucifer folly; and since the evil to be penalized was quite fully developed within a comparatively short time, it is apparent that the all-wise and farseeing universe rulers would be certain to extend the time in which to reap increasingly beneficial results. Regardless of the many additional reasons for delaying the apprehension and adjudication of the Satania rebels, this one gain would have been enough to explain why these sinners were not sooner interned, and why they have not been adjudicated and destroyed.
54:6.9 (620.1)
One error of human thinking respecting these problems consists in the idea that all evolutionary mortals on an evolving planet would choose to enter upon the Paradise career if sin had not cursed their world. The ability to decline survival does not date from the times of the Lucifer rebellion. Mortal man has always possessed the endowment of freewill choice regarding the Paradise career.
생존을 체험하면서 상승하는 동안, 너희는 우주 개념들을 넓히고 의미와 가치의 범위를 확장시킬 것이며;그리하여, 루시퍼와 사탄 같은 그런 존재들이 반역을 계속 진행하도록 왜 내버려뒀는지, 더 잘 이해할 것이다. 너희는 또한, 궁극적 선이 한시적 악으로부터 어떻게 발생될 수 있는지 (즉각적이지는 않더라도) 더 잘 납득할 것이다. 너희가 낙원에 도달한 후에, 최고스라빔 철학자들이 우주를 조정하는 이런 난해한 문제를 토의하고 설명하는 것을 듣게 될 때, 너희는 정말로 깨달음을 얻고 위로받을 것이다. 그러나 그런 때가 오더라도, 나는 너희가 자신의 정신에 충분한 만족감을 갖게 되리라고는 생각하지 않는다. 적어도 나는, 내가 우주 철학의 정상을 그렇게 성취했을 때에도 그렇지 못했다. 나는 연방우주에서 행정부 임무에 배정된 후에야, 이 까다로운 일들을 충분히 납득하게 됐는데, 거기서 나는 실제 체험을 함으로써, 시공우주 형평성과 영적 철학에서 그런 다방면의 문제를 납득하기에 충분한 개념적 수용력을 획득했다. 너희가 낙원을 향하여 상승함에 따라서, 오직 이 체험 수용력이 증가된 후에, 그리고 증진된 영적 통찰력을 성취한 후에야, 우주 경영에서 문제가 되는 여러 가지 모습을 겨우 납득할 수 있음을, 너희는 더욱 배울 것이다. 시공우주 지혜는 시공우주의 상황을 이해하는 데 필수다.
54:6.10 (620.2)
As you ascend in the survival experience, you will broaden your universe concepts and extend your horizon of meanings and values; and thus will you be able the better to understand why such beings as Lucifer and Satan are permitted to continue in rebellion. You will also better comprehend how ultimate (if not immediate) good can be derived from time-limited evil. After you attain Paradise, you will really be enlightened and comforted when you listen to the superaphic philosophers discuss and explain these profound problems of universe adjustment. But even then, I doubt that you will be fully satisfied in your own minds. At least I was not even when I had thus attained the acme of universe philosophy. I did not achieve a full comprehension of these complexities until after I had been assigned to administrative duties in the superuniverse, where by actual experience I have acquired conceptual capacity adequate for the comprehension of such many-sided problems in cosmic equity and spiritual philosophy. As you ascend Paradiseward, you will increasingly learn that many problematic features of universe administration can only be comprehended subsequent to the acquirement of increased experiential capacity and to the achievement of enhanced spiritual insight. Cosmic wisdom is essential to the understanding of cosmic situations.